ASME Wins 2015 ASAE Summit, Gold and Silver Power of A Awards

ASME Wins 2015 ASAE Summit, Gold and Silver Power of A Awards ASME Wins 2015 ASAE Summit, Gold and Silver Power of A Awards ASME Wins 2015 ASAE Summit, Gold and Silver Power of A AwardsASME programs have earned top honors in the ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) Power of A Awards competition for 2015, including one Summit Award, the industrys top prize, as well as two Gold and two Silver Awards. The Summit Awards are presented each year to the most outstanding programs of professional associations or societies in the United States. ASMEs Future Engineers 3D Space Challenge Program will take home one of the six ASAE Summit Awards to be presented in 2015. Congratulations to ASME for helping make the world a better place, said Hugh Mac Cannon, MPA, CAE, executive director of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Metropolitan Washington, and chair of the Power of A Awards Judging Committee Their programs exemplify how associations make a difference every day - not just to the industry or profession they represent, but to society at large.ASMEs Summit-winning program, the Future Engineers 3D Space Challenge, is a competition focused on solving real-world space exploration challenges. The ASME Foundation partnered with NASA to develop the competition, which called on K-12 students to submit their designs for a 3D-modeled space tool to be 3D-printed on the International Space Station.ASME INSPIRE, an educational program for K-12 students, was also a top winner this year. INSPIRE earned a 2015 Gold Power of A Award, one of only 30 selected from more than 140 nominees. INSPIRE is a unique digital course that uses ansprechbar gaming and simulations to teach critical technology and coding skills, ignite interest in STEM, and expose students to STEM opportunities they might never have dreamed were within their reach. The ASME Foundation has made INSPIRE available to schools throughout the U.S. at no cost to the schools or taxpayers.ASME also won 2015 Power of A Silver Awards for two programs The Innovative Additive Manufacturing 3D Challenge (IAM3D) and the Innovation Showcase, or IShow. IAM3D, a program of ASMEs Student and Early Career Sector, asks students to re-engineer existing products or create new ones to minimize energy consumption and/or improve energy efficiency. Students were required to submit business cases, supported by STL and CAD files, with short videos illustrating or describing their projects. Each team must demonstrate engineering rigor as well as creativity in applying additive manufacturing technology to an industrial, manufacturing, or humanitarian challenge. ASMEs Innovation Showcase, or IShow, is a global competition for hardware-led social innovation aimed at providing support to ventures tackling social and environmental problems through the development and deployment of physical products. ASME launched the IShow to help remedy the lack of support hardware innovators can encounter as they at tempt to get to market and scale - specifically, in terms of access to financial, human and physical capital. The Summit Awards will be presented at the ASAE Summit Awards Dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 30. - Joshua Olesker, ASME Public Information